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27 Years Ago Armageddon It Number 3 On US Hot 100 Chart

Thursday, 21st January 2016





Armageddon It 1989.

Def Leppard's single Armageddon It reached the Number Three spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart 27 years ago today.

The single was the sixth to be released from the 'Hysteria' album in the USA and hit number three on this day in 1989.

The third Top Three hit in a row and fourth Top Ten showing just how successful the band were at the time.

The song entered the Top Ten on 7th January having jumped from 12 to 9. It would go on to spend five weeks in the Top Ten at positions - 9, 5, 3, 3 and 6.

You can follow it's chart progress for all five of these weeks on the Billboard website's chart archive. On 21st January 1989 the Number One song was 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' by 2009/2012 tour mates Poison with Bobby Brown at number two.

In all the band spent 19 weeks in the US Top Ten singles chart in 1988/1989.

Def Leppard Armageddon It - Band Quotes

Phil Collen - "Tongue in cheek. T. Rex meets Eddie Cochran with backing vocals."

Phil Collen - "A fun song to do live. It's kind of like T. Rex's "Bang a Gong." A good party song. It never gets boring to play and it translates well to acoustic."

Joe Elliott - "Armageddon It was the last one. Mutt and I were only ones in the studio. And as soon as I finished doing the last bit of that song, it wasn't so much a feeling of anti-climax as it was an inner sense of being totally relieved. I didn't jump up and down. We didn't hug each other and drink tons of champagne. It was more like 'Oh we're finished, man. This is great.' We shook hands, sat down, looked at each other and we both let out a big sigh."






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